itch.io changelog: Library & Suggestions enhancements, improved jam searching, & extra

Hi there everybody, welcome again to the itch.io changelog.

We’ve bought an assortment of updates for you as we speak. No huge function launches as we
had been fairly busy with the Halloween
Sale,
however there are some issues within the works. Benefit from the updates. Additionally, do you know
that itch.io not too long ago handed over 200,000
video games?

Halloween Sale

Thanks to everybody who participated. We had a big enhance in
purchases-per-day throughout the entire web site, over 1600 video games had been on sale, and
one other profitable itch.io Selects
bundle. Numerous time
was spent on selling the gross sales, however we had a number of updates make their manner in as
nicely.

• Added darkish theme default mode in the course of the Halloween sale
  • Added a brief spooky itch.io pumpkin brand
• Numerous efficiency optimizations and inside adjustments for pages that present video games on sale (transformed many complicated queries into views, inside index adjustments)
• Up to date the script that generates “video games you comply with which might be on sale” e-mail to run considerably sooner
  • We had been in a position to ship it out a number of extra instances in comparison with earlier gross sales, hopefully netting extra patrons
• Many updates to your library that can assist you discover issues on sale. See beneath ↓

Your Library

• Applied a brand new suggestion algorithm based mostly on evaluating mission tags to your account exercise
• Added new suggestions web page devoted to issues which might be presently on sale
  • Choices for filtering by content material kind and a technique to exclude belongings you’ve already added to your library
• Up to date On sale out of your follows & collections with filter for content material kind and sorting by ranking, value, and recognition (demo)
• Rewrote the UI for the Really helpful for you web page in your library
  • Standardized library UI for grid of video games
  • Mission ranking is proven by default
  • New algorithm to fetch your Really helpful tags, consists of extra sources
  • Added “Contemporary video games” suggestion module
    • Spotlight a wider vary of video games that’s continuously updating
    • The aim is to reveal extra video games whereas stopping stale suggestions
    • Hopefully encourages extra folks to test their suggestions extra usually
• Some library pages at the moment are responsive and can fit on cell screens

Emails

Emails on this case refers back to the means for creators to write down and ship emails for initiatives and jams.

For jam hosts

For builders

• Added module to developer dashboard with hyperlinks to some choose jams
  • add dismiss button in case you don’t need to see the jams

For folks in search of jams

• Up to date the Jams overview & calendar web page
  • Added new “Featured Jams” part to the highest of the web page
    • The calendar may be very exhausting to parse because it’s so packed, so we needed a neater manner for folks to see what’s attention-grabbing in the event that they don’t have time to discover
    • Makes an attempt to indicate attention-grabbing & standard jams first, however randomly shuffles in much less standard ones to provide them some visibility as nicely
  • Jam calendar
    • A couple of folks have requested concerning the colours on the jam calendar: Colours are proven once you jam has both been featured or you might have over a threshold of individuals
    • Eliminated customized scrollbars from jam calendar, at all times use browser ones
    • Minor fixes to enhance loading efficiency (rather more work must be completed, as it may be fairly sluggish on telephones and slower PCs)
  • Added a diminished header with hyperlinks to jams you’ve joined and submitted to, as an alternative of exhibiting the jams immediately on the web page
• Jam searching

Safety

• Up to date spam limiting guidelines in response to new spammers
  • Word: We’re at all times reviewing our spam queue to ban unhealthy actors and replace our spam detection guidelines, however we’ve observed a brand new wave of spammers attempting to work round our system
  • Posting charges are extra granularly monitored to stop mass posting
  • You might even see Recaptcha or be blocked from posting in additional eventualities, if it’s getting in the best way of utilizing the location please contact us
  • Up to date validation for legitimate characters in usernames to assist stop username spam hyperlinks
  • Up to date validation for username size
• Revoked API keys at the moment are stored within the database so account historical past might be audited for safety causes
• Add last_used_at subject for API keys

YouTube channel

• We’ve created a YouTube channel to share clips of video games we document after we create promotional materials for video games
• It’s model new, so there’s not a lot there in the meanwhile
• Along with sport recordings, we’ve got plans to submit issues like tutorials for our instruments and recommendations on how you can use itch.io
• Take a look at the channel & subscribe

Internationalization

• Up to date to newest translations from our contributors
• 24,648 strings in our translation database
• Word: alternate languages are nonetheless opt-in: you need to have an account and choose an alternate language out of your account settings

For those who’d like to affix the interpretation mission please try the thread in our group: https://itch.io/t/383202/translating-itchio

Misc

• Enhance loading efficiency of searching web page on cell by stopping photos that weren’t seen from loading earlier than predominant content material
• Fastened bug with App Retailer URL validation
• Repair darkish theme points on a number of pages
• Replace record of obtainable Google fonts for theme editor
• Stop exhibiting duplicate video games from suggestions on homepage
• Refactored how downloads are logged for individuals who obtain paid video games by means of a press account
• Fastened a bug the place countdown timer on homepage banner could be within the flawed time zone
  • The counter can even not go adverse after the time has elapsed